Western Civilization Sources, Images, and Interpretations

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Description: Now in its seventh edition, Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, features a feast for the eyes-namely, a vibrant, four-color collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for Western Civilization survey courses thatMore...

Now in its seventh edition, Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, features a feast for the eyes-namely, a vibrant, four-color collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for Western Civilization survey courses that provides a broad introduction to the materials historians use as well as to the interpretations they make from those materials. Much more than a mere reprinting of primary sources, Western Civilization boasts useful introductions, insightful commentaries, guides, and questions that ensure students really grasp how historians work with these sources.

Preface

Using this Book

The Early Modern Period

Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century

Primary Sources

Using Primary Sources: Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism

Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism

The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical Authority in Prussia

Memoires: The Aristocracy Undermined in France

Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power

Visual Sources

Using Visual Sources: The Early Modern Chateau 8

The Early Modern Chateau (figure)

Maternal Care (figure)

Secondary Sources

Using Secondary Sources: Absolutism: Myth And Reality

Absolutism: Myth and Reality

The English Revolution, 1688-1689

Centuries of Childhood

The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family

The Scientific Revolution

Primary Sources

The Discourse on Method

Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture

The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Visual Sources

A Vision of the New Science (figure)

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (figure)

Secondary Sources

Why Was Science Backward in the Middle Ages?

Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific Revolution

No Scientific Revolution for Women

Politics and Society in the Ancien Regime

Primary Sources

Political Testament

The Complete English Tradesman

The Slave Trade

Letter to Lady R., 1716: Women and the Aristocracy

Women of the Third Estate

Visual Sources

Happy Accidents of the Swing (figure)

Act of Humanity (figure)

The Battle of Fontenoy (text and figure)

The Atlantic Slave Trade (chart)

Secondary Sources

Slavery-White, Black, Muslim, Christian

The Ancien Regime: Ideals and Realities

The Resurgent Aristocracy

Lords and Peasants

Women's Work in Preindustrial Europe

The Enlightenment

Primary Sources

What Is Enlightenment?

The System of Nature

Prospectus for the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences

The Philosophe

Philosophical Dictionary: The English Model

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The Age of Reason: Deism

The Social Contract

Visual Sources

Frontispiece of the Encyclopedie (figure)

Experiment with an Air Pump (figure)

Propaganda and the Enlightened Monarch (text and figure)

Secondary Sources

The Age of Enlightenment

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

Women in the Salons

The Problem of Enlightened Absolutism

The Nineteenth Century

The French Revolution

Primary Sources

Travels in France: Signs of Revolution

The Cahiers: Discontents of the Third Estate

What Is the Third Estate?

Revolutionary Legislation: Abolition of the Feudal System

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen

The Declaration of Independence

Speech to the National Convention-February 5, 1794: The Terror Justified

A Soldier's Letters to His Mother: Revolutionary Nationalism

Visual Sources

Allegory of the Revolution (figure)

Henri de la Rochjacquelein (figure)

Internal Disturbances and the Reign of Terror (maps and charts)

Secondary Sources

The Coming of the French Revolution

The Revolution of the Notables

Loaves and Liberty: Women in the French Revolution

An Evaluation of the French Revolution

The Age of Napoleon

Primary Sources

Memoirs: Napoleon's Appeal

Memoirs: Napoleon's Secret Police

Napoleon's Diary

Visual Sources

Napoleon Crossing the Alps (figure)

Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa (figure)

Secondary Sources

France Under Napoleon: Napoleon as Enlightened Despot

Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution

Women and the Napoleonic Code

Industrialization and Social Change

Primary Sources

Testimony for the Factory Act of 1833: Working Conditions in England

Sybil, or the Two Nations: Mining Towns

The Condition of the Working Class in England

Self-Help: Middle-Class Attitudes

Father Goriot: Money and the Middle Class

Woman in Her Social and Domestic Character

Women and the Working Class

Visual Sources

Gare Saint Lazare (figure)

Iron and Coal (figure)

Illustration from Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong (figure)

Industrialization and Demographic Change (maps)

Secondary Sources

The Making of Economic Society: England, the First to Industrialize

The Industrial Revolution in Russia

Early Industrial Society: Progress or Decline!

The Family and Industrialization in Western Europe

Reaction, Reform, Revolution, and Romanticism: 1815-1848

Primary Sources

Secret Memorandum to Tsar Alexander I, 1820: Conservative Principles

The Carlsbad Decrees, 1819: Conservative Repression

English Liberalism

The Economist, 1851, Liberalism: Progress and Optimism

The First Chartist Petition: Demands for Change in England

Annual Register, 1848, An Eyewitness Account of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany

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